abstract the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy in increasing marital intimacy. the research procedure was quasi experimental using mixed subjects design (3*2). the statistical population were couples who entered one of the counseling centers because of intimacy problems and marital conflict . sample group consisted of 32 subjects...

Objective(s): To address the alarming problem of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), herein, a marine Streptomyces capable of producing an anti-MRSA compound has been studied.Materials and Methods: Strain MN41 was morphologically and physiologically characterized and then, molecularly identified using 16SrRNA analysis. To...

This technical note deals with a priori estimation of efficiency of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) designs. The efficiency of an estimator is a measure of how reliable it is and depends on error variance (the variance not modeled by explanatory variables in the design matrix) and the design variance (a function of the explanatory variables and the contrast tested). Changes in the ...

Nearly every theory of causal induction assumes that the existence and strength of causal relations needs to be inferred from observational data in the form of covariations. The last few decades have seen much controversy over exactly how covariations license causal conjectures. One consequence of this debate is that causal induction research has taken for granted that covariation information i...

the ultrasound assisted emulsification microextraction (usaeme) method followed byinductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (icp-aes) was used for preconcentration anddetermination of bismuth (bi), indium (in) and lead (pb) in the plant azolla filiculoides lam. calix [4] pyrrole was used as a chelating agent and tetrachloroethylene was selected as extraction solvent. the main para...

enhanced oil recovery using nitrogen injection is a commonly applied method for pressuremaintenance in conventional reservoirs. numerical simulations can be practiced for the prediction ofa reservoir performance in the course of injection process; however, a detailed simulation might takeup enormous computer processing time. in such cases, a simple statistical model may be a goodapproach to the...

nanostructured ruo2 powders were synthesized via a hydrothermal method at 180 °c for 12 h using 1 and 2 m naoh aqueous solutions. the structure of the obtained nanomaterials was investigated by powder x-ray diffraction (pxrd) technique. the morphology the obtained materials were studied by field emission scanning electron microscope (fesem). the technique showed that with changing the reaction ...

the ultrasound assisted emulsification microextraction (usaeme) method followed byinductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (icp-aes) was used for preconcentration anddetermination of bismuth (bi), indium (in) and lead (pb) in the plant azolla filiculoides lam. calix [4] pyrrole was used as a chelating agent and tetrachloroethylene was selected as extraction solvent. the main para...

in this study a 3-factor, 3-level box-behnken design was used to prepare optimized docetaxel (dtx) loaded pegylated poly lactide-co-glycolide (peg-plga) nps with polymer concentration (x1), drug concentration (x2) and ratio of the organic to aqueous solvent (x3) as the independent variables and particle size (y1), poly dispersity index (pdi) (y2) and drug loading (y3) as the responses. the cyto...